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Enhancing Education Through Audience Awareness and Humor

Discover the importance of audience engagement and humor in education, with practical insights and relevant theories for effective teaching. Learn how to build rapport, establish connection, and create memorable learning experiences. Get inspired to incorporate humor and tailored content to captivate your audience and promote a dynamic educational environment.

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Enhancing Education Through Audience Awareness and Humor

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  1. Is This Mic On? Why Audience Awareness & Humor Have Never Been More Important in Education Mari Flynn, Keystone College, La Plume, PA Picture Generated by http://www.notcelebrity.co.uk/

  2. About me Picture Generated by http://www.blyberg.net/card-generator/ Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

  3. Inspiration… Photo courtesy of Flickr Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

  4. Our Audience… Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

  5. In a meeting With my significant other When I “lose” 2 hours online When I get chastised in yoga class When my crops wither And then I realized…. Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

  6. What doesn’t work? What works? What “interrupts” me? Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

  7. Relevant Theories… Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

  8. Mind-Set Matters… • Identify audience biases Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

  9. Have a plan… • Know what you are good at • Know what humor is good at • Show relevance • Build rapport • Establish connection • Bait & switch if you have to Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

  10. Assignment Ideas…Controlled Vocabulary/Research • Use what is true and funny. • Build a pool of fun/interesting facts • If you can’t humor-up some content consider other ways to “interrupt” and build rapport • Generators for visual fun • Standard icebreakers Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

  11. Assignment Ideas…Controlled Vocabulary/Research Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

  12. Courtesy of Harper’s Index • Number of wasps a Georgia engineering professor has trained to sniff out explosives: 3,000 & Number of seconds he says it takes to train each wasp: 30 (8/06) • Number of North Carolina license plates issued in 2007 that began with the letters “WTF”: 8999 (9/08) • Number of drivers who have asked for a replacement plate: 92. (9/08) • Number of tries it took a blind North Dakota man to pass a shooting test [in the fall of 2000] before receiving a gun permit:2 (Harper’s Index 4/01) • Number of states in which one may legally shoot fish with a semi-automatic rifle: 2 (Harper’s Index 10/04) • Estimated percentage change since 2007 in U.S. sales of golf carts for purposes other than golf: +215% & Percentage change since 1990 in serious golf-cart-related injuries: +132% (9/08) Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

  13. Administration + Humor Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

  14. Continuous Partial Assessment? Picture generated by www.milinkito.com/swf/bart.php? Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

  15. The End • MIASGB • OO • TTFN • Make like Jimmy Hoffa • AMF • L8R G8R • :: poof :: Mari Flynn, Keystone College, 2010

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